Toronto City Council voted 21 to 1 in favour of Councillor Jennifer McKelvie’s motion to temporarily rename a route of streets (from Nathan Phillips Square to the Rogers Centre) as ‘Taylor Swift Way’ during the artist’s Eras Tour in November. The street signs will also be lit up red on certain dates of Swift’s concerts.
Toronto city councillors voted in favour of raising parking fines as of August 1 at a council meeting on Wednesday after approving a city staff report on the issue. The report, conducted by the Transportation Services committee, which analyzed several other Canadian municipalities to compare similar parking offences and their penalty amounts to those of
Toronto took another step towards completing the Meadoway off-road trail system that would run from the downtown Don Valley trails all the way to Rouge Park at the easter end of the city. A significant trail connection in the Meadoway at Highland Creek celebrated its grand opening, recently. This two-kilometre multi-use trail, surrounded by 16
If you’re looking for a fun, sociable, and invigorating way to keep fit in Toronto, look no further than pickleball. At yesterday’s city council meeting, a move to rapidly expand the fast-growing sport in Toronto was approved and moves are now being made. The city is set to significantly increase the number of outdoor pickleball
Toronto Metropolitan University has just purchased two key properties from the city of Toronto that will link the downtown campus to Yonge-Dundas Square. Toronto-owned properties at 277 Victoria St. and 38 Dundas St. E. have been sold by city agency CreateTO to Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), according to an agreement announced this morning. This sale
Toronto is set to head to the polls on June 26 to elect the next mayor of Toronto. Here is everything we know up to this point. The latest Advance voting for Toronto’s 2023 by-election for mayor is set to begin tomorrow, June 8, and will continue for six consecutive days until June 13. This
It might seem hard to fathom that Toronto streets could get even more clogged, well don’t look now summer construction season is here and the city’s released a massive list of projects sure to send residents scurrying to the bike lanes. Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie announced the city of Toronto’s ambitious construction agenda for 2023, a
High Park will continue to be closed to vehicles on weekends and holidays while city staff develop a plan to ultimately ban private cars from the landmark greenspace in the future. The Toronto city council approved the plan in a heated debate with 18 votes in favour and 7 against. The changes will be minor
A City of Toronto staff report is recommending a massive boost in residential home construction in the city in an effort to get housing affordability under control. The report, which will be presented at a housing and planning committee meeting this week, sets an ambitious construction target of 285,000 homes to be built by 2031.
City-appointed traffic agents will be deployed to key Toronto intersections this year to help with morning and afternoon peak travel periods. The agents are special constables and will ensure all road users comply with laws and regulations in an attempt to reduce congestion and increase road safety. “Expanding the City’s Traffic Agents Program is an
For the past week, Toronto staff has been gathering public input for a new framework for bars, restaurants and entertainment venues to support strategies to enhance the city’s night economy. This week, the city’s economic and community development committee could take another step by signing on to a global movement called the Nighttime Manifesto. And
The federal government could eliminate one riding from the city of Toronto and current city councillors are raising a red flag over the issue and the repercussions at the local and provincial level. Now, 24 of the 25 members of Toronto city council have jointly signed a letter to the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario
Next month, Toronto restaurants and bars will usher in the start of patio season with the return of the CaféTO program, but according to an announcement from the city, hundreds of fewer businesses will be taking part this year. In a statement released on Thursday, the city said that approximately 500 businesses had submitted applications
The next time you’re out on a walk in the city, you can leave the peanuts and breadcrumbs at home. On April 1, the city officially outlawed the feeding of wildlife in Toronto, much to the dismay of some residents who feel that the new rules are cruel and “mean-spirited.” According to Chapter 349 under
The 2023 budget tabled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday promised billions in dental care, GST rebates for low-income Canadians, and significant investments to build Canada’s clean economy—but no money to help cover Toronto’s $933 million shortfall from its 2023 budget (a deficit largely blamed on decreased TTC ridership and increased homelessness costs from
The city of Toronto has announced that two long-anticipated new parks and a slew of other waterfront projects are on track to open on schedule this year. Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie (Scarborough-Rouge Park) was joined by Councillor Gary Crawford (Scarborough Southwest), Chair of the Budget Committee to highlight the city’s investments in Toronto’s central waterfront. Highlights
Following a raucous city council budget meeting that went into the late hours of Wednesday evening, Mayor John Tory official resigned his post effective at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Tory is out, but not without some begging and pleading by certain conservative city councillors who were hopeful they could convince him to stay. They couldn’t. Particularly
The latest batch of speed cameras are up and running deployed to Community Safety Zones across the city. The cameras are added to 50 existing speed cameras, to bring the total number to 75, which the city says are “aimed at dissuading speeding and further strengthening road safety across Toronto as part of the City’s Vision
In these dark days as the new year dawns, Ontario is slipping from a jurisdiction functioning under democratic conventions, to one that is anti-democratic and authoritarian in nature. The extent of the support for the anti-democratic decisions has swept across a majority of those elected to the legislature and through the mayor of Toronto and
ActiveTO, a plan introduced by the City of Toronto last May, is back with its first weekend road closures of 2021. The program provides more walking and cycling space for Toronto residents while maintaining physical distance. Today, Mayor John Tory announced that the first road closures will be along Bayview Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard
Midtown city councillor Josh Matlow has been tireless in his pursuit of greater snow-clearing efforts in Toronto’s older central neighbourhoods to create parity for these areas with suburban areas that have longed enjoyed snow-free sidewalks. Although his efforts the past couple of years have not been successful, he did not throw in the towel. His
